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''The Stuart Hall Project'' is a 2013 British film written and directed by John Akomfrah centred on cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who is regarded as one of the founding figures of the New Left and a key architect of Cultural Studies in Britain. The film uses a montage of documentary footage together with Hall's own words and thoughts to produce what Peter Bradshaw of ''The Guardian'' called "an absorbing account", awarding it four stars and stating that it has "an idealism and high seriousness that people might not immediately associate with the subject Hall pioneered".〔Peter Bradshaw, ("The Stuart Hall Project – Review" ), ''The Guardian'', 5 September 2013.〕 ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's Ashley Clark described it as "a strongly personal work" that "unfolds simultaneously as a tribute to a heroic figure, a study of the emergence of the New Left and its attendant political ideas, and a summation, in thematic and technical terms, of the key characteristics of Akomfrah’s body of work thus far (intertextuality, archival manipulation, a focus on postcolonial and diasporic discourse in Britain)."〔Ashley Clark, ("Film of the week: The Stuart Hall Project" ), ''Sight & Sound'', 29 September 2014.〕 == Summary == ''The Stuart Hall Project'', together with Akomfrah's three-screen video installation ''The Unfinished Conversation'', tells the story of cultural theorist Stuart Hall narrated through Hall's archived audio interviews and television recordings. Akomfrah explores the myriad ways that Hall influenced black British constructions of identity in the second half of the 20th century.〔("The Stuart Hall Project (2013)" ), BFI, Film Forever.〕 Hall appeared on the British radio and television for more than 50 years and spent his whole career exploring how social change makes sense of who we are, what we are entitled to and what society makes available to us. Hall continually engages the hybridity and complexity of identity and its relationship to sociopolitical and sociocultural phenomena. He comments that, similar to Miles Davis’s trumpet, it is the seemingly most mundane portions of everyday life that can affect the person we become and more broadly provide an accurate barometer of social change. Society is infinitely changing, and must be closely analyzed in order to pinpoint exactly what catalyses such change, as the cause can be the most subtle.〔''The Stuart Hall Project''. Dir. John Akomfrah. Prod. Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, Smoking Dogs Films. 2013. DVD.〕 "Where do you come from?" is expected to be followed up with a long story.〔 The immigrants of the Caribbean opened up the ideas that the notions of ourselves and our values of where we live are not always translatable from one value to another. Hall says the theory that full assimilation is possible, or that the people who came over two generations would disappear into the host family and become more or less indistinguishable from them, was a dream or illusion to be buried on both sides. Youth began to answer the question "Who am I?" with: "I am the person who is refusing that identity." Young blacks of the 1970s, who were being alienated from identifying as British, emerged from this deep crisis of identity by coming to the realization that the complex things that made them black could never be traded away. Instead of being complacent about confronting racism, according to Hall black youth came to understand that in order to truly contest a problem it is imperative that you mobilize. It is in that moment that the archaic ideals of "perfect assimilation" in Britain die and the multi-cultural society comes to life: "we are not going to stay on the terms of becoming just like you."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Stuart Hall Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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